spacecowboy_lon

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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
BAE,BT and qinetiq are quoted and do work for the MOD and DOD - if its such sensitive work then they would be crown servants (or what ever the equivalent is for the USA)
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Amen I remember that when I had shares in o2 from a employee scheme. The company did an exercise in buying out small shareholders for around 50p - Less than a year later the sahres got brought by telephonica for £2.0
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I doubt that the "trades" ever had much respect - its just that those bright kids would have left school at 16 and done the vocational route all go to uni now. Apprenticeships in the UK have to pick from those that are left and d
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I know one guy recently went to japan to learn traditional swordmaking - some of his work is in Birmigham (UK) museum staggeringly beautiful and deadly.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Yes if your doing cutting edge R&D you relay on having very good shops - who can both build the experiment and come up with solutions and make sure you accidentally don't design a rig that will self destruct. My first job was on ca
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Midleware is the normal term
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
No professional developer should EVER use Select * in working code.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
testify Brother/Sister Testify
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
That is normally considered a good thing other wise different applications accessing the same data have to roll there own - do you really want multiple versions of biz logic. eg a large organizations like a bit telco may have multiple appli
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I think its a combo of two compounds that harden when mixed. http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/potting-compounds/1991402/
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Why a system that encourages interparty infighting is not a good thing for democracy. Just switch to OMOV and have each state democratic party vote on a leader and have them run for president would save a vast amount of cash being wasted.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
You should read the BuSab novels by Herbet if you think there might not be a downside to a 100% efficient bureaucracy.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Zurich attractive? - I though it might be Google hedging its bets in the event of Brexit. Though Cranfield CIT and half way between Oxford and Cambridge woudl have been another good choice. - they could even have taken RAF Twinwoods over
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The Wee frees in Scotland can be like that one very senior Scottish politician was excommunicated for stepping inside a catholic church (for an old friends funeral) a few years ago.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
why would they do that when they can get their pick of european talent and pay them 50% less than they would in SV
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
The really juciy secrets would be kept offline I think
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Remind me again of the number of successful ship launched cruise missile strikes against capital units The only successful recent use (and that was an AA picket) is Air lanched Argentinians vs the Royal navy and that required some very ba
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
But you can operate Harriers from converted merchantmen at a pinch.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its not just the CAV its the whole support structure you have to attack / get past - you would have to disable the picket ships and CAP as well and then hit the target which in its self has plenty of Point Defense.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Ask the RN if they think carriers are obsolete given their experience in the Falklands war. And no having planes flying in form half a content away is not the same as having local assets.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
It would be nice if OSX could actually work with share point - a big issue if you have a mixed OSX / Wintel Shop. It's not a major issue just adding more modern crypto.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
So why did 7/7 use diy explosive?
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its how before drones and smart munitions they used to use air power to attack targets - luckily my father was out of the house when the Luftwaffe bombed it in WW2 - House was close to the biggest spitfire plant in the UK.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Look at how hard and expensive it is for the average person to have individual membership of the LSE and from what i can see NSY and NSADAQ dont allow it at all. This is favoring insiders
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Compered to the previous method of carpet bombing?
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Well Deash and Al Queda don't seem to have much ability to get the good explosives required for that - Compare them to the PIRA and UDF during the troubles. I am surprised that they haven't tried the sort of improvised mortars th
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
No Sysadmin shoud be playing games on the systems he/she uses for admin work.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
depends on how you are taxed
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
And your point is? the ex div share price recovers in most cases.
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by spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
Its just an artifact of the that countrys tax system if you can receive taxed income or scrip shares untaxed then 99.9% of people are going to go for scrip.

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